SCREENING DESCRIPTION

The FibroScan is a noninvasive way to gauge the health of your liver and determine what stage of liver disease you and your care team might be up against. With the FibroScan, liver stiffness is measured, which indicates whether or not scarring is present and which can also indicate the extent of the scarring. Scarring of the liver in the initial stages is called fibrosis, and more severe scarring is cirrhosis. The FibroScan is like a fibrosis scan that can use scarring measurements to diagnose or track the progression of liver disease.